Improvement in pocket-cutlery



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" y'DAVID in. SMITH., o-EjBRoNXvILLE, NEW vonk'.l

' Laim Patent No. 92,217, daad my 6, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IIn POCKET-aumen?.

The Sehedule referred to these Lettera;v Patent and making part of the name.

To all-whom 'it may concern v Be it known' that L'DAVID E. Smrr, of' Bronxi'ille,

in the county .of hVestchcster, and State of New York,

have invented and made a'new and useful Improvementjn Pocket-Knives and` I do hereby. declare ythe following to be a full, elear,'and exact `description of* i the same,-reference being had to the annexed drawng, making part of this specitmtion,wherein- 'Figure 1 is a section longitudinallythroughthe.

spring 1nd handle; y

Figure 2 is a. view of the back part ot" the handle;

' Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

- This invention relates to a knii'e formed with acastf metal handle, the sides and back hcing cast in one piece, and havingan inward projection for the heel ofthe blade when open, in con'ibination with. a. folded retains the -bladewhen either open or shut.

'In the drawingof about the sectional shape shown Iin fig. 3. The handle may. be adapted'to receiving,r a-hlade or blades at'each end. I, however, have only shown a blade at one end. l

At the end ofthe back portion of the handle, at the a is the castfnietal handle, formed in one piece, and

point against which the heel of the blade sets open, I provide a projection, 2, passing inward to form a large spring, that ',ture, this 26th day ol' December, A. l).

bearing for the heeloi the blade to rest against, and' v al'sostrengthcn the handle at this part. l l The blade bis mounted upon the'pivotc, and formed with thc heel -3 taking against the projection 2, when opened. y j. The spring d isv folded upon itself, to form-two spring-y arms, one ot' which sets upagainst the square of the blade, the other against the inside of-thehandle at the lback, ami a pin, 4, passing through an eye at the fold of the spring, allows the arms oi' said spring to 4play, but contines the spring to place in the handle.

, Knives lnia-de in this manner are very-strongand' v4durable, the back of the handle is smooth, amino part l of the spring projects or is exposed to becoming rusty A or discolored by handling.

vWhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters-Pate' `eut isv v "he knife-handle, withthe back,- sidcs, .andyprojec` tion 2 cast in one piece, in combinationv with the folded spring, applied inthe mannerand fort-he purposes speci; v tied.

In witness whereof', Iy have hereunto set rny signa#l 1868. y DAVID E. SMITH. Witnesses: 

